Sales Engineer Formwork & Falsework

  • Mitchell Maguire
  • Guildford, Surrey
  • Feb 18, 2026
Full time Sales & Marketing

Job Description

Sales Engineer Formwork & Falsework

Job Title: Sales Engineer Formwork & Falsework
Industry Sector: Construction, Formwork & Falsework, Shoring, Groundwork, Temporary Works Construction Hire, Trenching, Pilling, Propping, Civil Engineering, Specialist Formwork & Falsework Sub-Contractors and Main Contractors

Area to be covered: South of South East

Postcodes; SW, SE, SM, CR, BR, DA, KT, GU, RH, ME, CT, TN, BN & PO

Remuneration: £45,000-£50,000 + 1% commission

Benefits: Hybrid Car (or allowance of £500 per month) + full benefits package
The role of the Formwork & Falsework Sales Engineer will involve:

Technical field sales position, selling the hire (80%) and sale (20%) of formwork and falsework equipment

70% proactively stimulating demand for equipment through end users and tier One and tier Two contractors

30% of your time reactively dealing with well established relationships within formwork and falsework sub contractors

Responsible for an area with a turnover of circa £1m, currently performing below budget expectations

Following up on Barbour ABI leads and your own industry contacts

Large proportion of time will be spent on construction sites and visiting head offices

Project sizes typically £8,000-£25,000, but larger projects can be £70-,000-£80,000

Utilising a team of qualified engineers for technical support

Visiting construction sites, typically 4.5 days a week and on average 4-5 customer visits per day

The ideal applicant will be a Formwork & Falsework Sales engineer with:

Our client is open to most civils or plant/ tool hire backgrounds

Must have a technical brain

Ideally hire equipment to construction site backgrounds

Formwork or falsework technical field sales experience would be ideal but is not essential

Construction site experience, may consider an engineer working in a design office or on the tools experience looking for field sales role

Strong new business skills

Energetic, drive, passion and enthusiastic

Open to hire or sales industry field sales experience

Companies of interest includes; GAP, Dewalt, Wurth, Speedy Hire, Hilti, Sunbelt or even structural steel businesses or formwork consumables

Mix of construction and engineering background preferred

The Company:

Est. 50 Years+

Multiple depots nationwide

100+ employees

Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Field Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Field Sales Jobs, Construction field sales vacancies and Specification field sales positions within: Civil Engineering, Groundwork, Concrete, Formwork, Falsework, forming, shoring, Infrastructure,construction hire, plant hire, walls, trenching, piling, access, propping, columns and temporary works



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